VILLASIS–A world record for talong soon? After some 10,000 people showed up for the successful grilling of 3,000 kilos of eggplants for the first-ever Talong Grill Festival last week, the  town is ready for next year’s attempt to land in the pages of Guinness Book  of World Records. Mayor Nonato…

If  the Arroyo government cannot even stop illegal gambling for good,  how could it stop graft and corruption, terrorism and smuggling, murders  and massacres? Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz posed this question after  both the resurgence of jueteng operations in the Bicol region and the planned re-entry of Small Town Lottery…

THE city council returned to work last Jan. 9 after a long Christmas vacation to finally approve this year’s budget in the amount of P357 million. Councilor Michael Fernandez, chair of the city council’s finance and ways and means committees, admitted there was  little delay in the approval of this…

Former President Fidel V. Ramos  is not giving up on the Philippines. He said this in his speech during a luncheon meeting hosted by Mayor Benjamin Lim at the Star Plaza Hotel, attended by various sectors of the society in Dagupan City and Pangasinan. Fresh from his meeting with President…

Former President  Fidel V. Ramos maintained his personal stand that  holding no elections in 2007  and beyond would be a monumental blunder for the Philippines. Speaking at a Star Plaza Hotel  luncheon meeting with  local government officials, professionals, members of non-government organizations and academe, members of the judiciary  and other…

PNP Superintendent Noli Taliño, police chief of Dagupan City on the way out? This question came up after  Talino has failed to comply  with the directive of Police Regional Director Claudio Cabreros to solve the series of bank robberies and other crimes perpetrated in Dagupan City  in the  past months….

MALASIQUI-Vice Governor Oscar Lambino said ‘Biskeg Pangasinan’ would stay as a group even if President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo breaks her pledge not to run for reelection next year. The second most senior official of Pangasinan made this assurance in the wake of a call by the Lakas-CMD ruling party for…

SAN CARLOS CITY-It is a big gamble but the city government of San Carlos is willing to take the risk at any cost. In exchange for two prime lots occupied by two central elementary schools measuring more than five hectares, the city government here is building a 120-room school building…